Check an Address in West Springfield

The Town Around It

Whatever the address, these are West Springfield's numbers. Each one opens the full record.

What Just SoldSee the town's record How Often Homes TradeAbout once every 45 years HeatMost homes burn utility gas SchoolsTown districts run through grade 12 InternetCable is wired here Chapter 40B3.5%, below the 10% threshold Getting OutSpringfield is about 6 min by road

Flood, Town-wide

Mapped Flood Zones Present

Parts of this town are inside mapped special flood hazard areas, where flood insurance is required for most mortgages and building is regulated. Whether a specific property is inside one is a parcel-level question, check the address, not the town.

2 federal flood-insurance claims have been filed from this town since 2019 (most recent: 2021). Counted by the claim's self-reported city, so this can undercount. History, not a prediction.

Dams in Town

Bear Hole Reservoir Dam · Paucatuck Brook
Significant hazard potential, a failure would be likely to cause property damage but not loss of life. Not a statement about the dam's condition or the chance it fails.
Lyncosky Lower Pond Dam · Bagg Brook
Not classified, no hazard potential classification has been published for this dam. This is not a finding that it poses no hazard.
Lyncosky Upper Pond Dam · Tributary to Bagg Brook
Not classified, no hazard potential classification has been published for this dam. This is not a finding that it poses no hazard.
Piper Pond Dam · Piper Brook
Not classified, no hazard potential classification has been published for this dam. This is not a finding that it poses no hazard.
Springfield Country Club Dam · Bagg Brook
Significant hazard potential, a failure would be likely to cause property damage but not loss of life. Not a statement about the dam's condition or the chance it fails.
Strathmore Paper Company Dam · Westfield River
Significant hazard potential, a failure would be likely to cause property damage but not loss of life. Not a statement about the dam's condition or the chance it fails.

The Cleanup Registry

Reported releases of oil or hazardous material, from the state's public registry. Being listed means a release was reported, not that it remains: the status letters run from active cleanup to closed. An empty list is a registry fact, not a clean bill of environmental health.

PLASTIC PACKAGING · 1227 UNION ST · state file 1-0000897 (TIERII)
NO LOCATION AID · 115 WAYSIDE AVE · state file 1-0013747 (TIER1D)
I 90 EXIT 4 - I 91 N ON-RAMP · 1-90 · state file 1-0020798 (TIER1D)
FORMER NATIONAL METALS INDUSTRIES · 203 CIRCUIT AVE · state file 1-0015326 (TIERII)
RESIDENTIAL BASEMENT · 53 BELLE AVENUE · state file 1-0019580 (TIER1D)

23 of the town's closed cleanups carry a recorded land-use restriction: the deed limits what the property may be used for. Each links to its state file above; ask for the restriction's text before buying one.

Water at the Address

Public water systems in town: WEST SPRINGFIELD DPW WATER DIVISION. Service areas have edges; an address outside them is on a well. Sewer treatment exists (WEST SPRINGFIELD); beyond its lines, septic. Bedrock well yield in town rates "average specific yield".

The Busiest Roads

INTERSTATE 91 (I-91)76,141 vehicles/day (2024 count)
MASSACHUSETTS TURNPIKE (I-90)48,101 vehicles/day (2024 count)
NORTH END BRIDGE ROTARY30,500 vehicles/day (2021 count)
RIVERDALE STREET (US-5)30,206 vehicles/day (2024 count)
NORTH END BRIDGE (US-20)25,488 vehicles/day (2022 count)

The state counts major roads on a rotating schedule; each figure carries its own count year, and a quiet lane's absence from this list is not zero cars.

Zoning & Old Houses

No machine-readable zoning reference is on record for this town; the town clerk has the bylaw. 470 properties in town appear in the state's historic inventory; listed buildings can carry review requirements on exterior work.

Check an Address Nearby

The same lookup for the nearest towns, each at its own rate.

Springfield$15.46 per $1,000 · $4,181 a year Agawam$14.10 per $1,000 · $4,875 a year Chicopee$15.24 per $1,000 · $4,374 a year Longmeadow$19.32 per $1,000 · $9,966 a year East Longmeadow$19.43 per $1,000 · $6,735 a year Holyoke$17.43 per $1,000 · $4,603 a year

Sources

FEMA flood layer via MassGIS; FEMA flood-insurance claims. Checked 2026-08-05.
Office of Dam Safety inventory; federal inventory for federally regulated dams. Checked 2026-08-05.
MassDEP release and land-use-restriction registries (Chapter 21E). Checked 2026-08-05.
MassDEP service registries; federal drinking-water system inventory; USGS well mapping. Checked 2026-08-05.
MassDOT traffic count programme. Figures through the 2024 count.
Town zoning references; Massachusetts historic inventory. Checked 2026-08-05.

"Figures through" is the period the publisher's data describes; "checked" is only when we last asked. The full sourcing: sources and method.